I published my first book, THE BATTLE FOR
BRISINGAMEN, in May 2013. I soon followed this up with the award winning
mystery/thriller THE GLADE in November 2013, and my first Young Adult fiction
book, ELEMENTAL EARTH, in July 2014.

Today, am promoting my latest work, POLISH
YOUR PROSE. This is my first non-fiction book, and is a powerful new guide that
gives essential editing tips for authors.

Lots of books have been written on the art
of writing, and here—at last—is a guide that will teach you the essential
techniques of editing your own book. This will help you turn a promising
manuscript into a published novel. And, it does this without the jargon. You
don’t need to know all the grammatical terms in order to make use of this book.
You don’t need to know the definition of a split infinitive, a comma splice, or
a ‘to be’ verb, as this manual explains these in detail in easy to understand
terms, and a lively and engaging style.

Chapters on Passive Writing, Tense, Point
of View, Dialogue, and other techniques take you through the same processes an
editor would go through to polish and perfect your manuscript. Good writing is
nothing without good editing. Learn the secrets of good editing and writing
with this essential author reference, which offers so much more for so much
less.

As well as being an award-winning author, I
am an accomplished editor and proofreader. My passion is helping Indie Authors
to successfully achieve their goals and dreams.

Excerpt from Chapter Nineteen: Proof It …

“Proofreading your book is essential. You
must not EVER rely solely on your spellchecker. As it will lead you
astray. One of the more amusing things I
came across recently was while reading a local newsletter:

While
proofreading this newsletter we were struck by how many please for help there have been.

It might be worth noting that my
spellchecker didn't catch that when I typed up this book. The word, of course,
wants to be ‘pleas’.

It is also a good idea to put your book
away for a week or two, minimum, if you intend to proof it yourself. This way,
your brain will come at it fresh and not insert what it ‘knows’ should be
there.